Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 41, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 September 1948 — Record $4,000 Paid For Hog At State Fair [ARTICLE]

Record $4,000 Paid For Hog At State Fair

235-Pound Boar Wins Grand Prize; Hundreds View High Standard Stock A single hog sold for $4,000 yesterday at the Indiana State Fair, setting a new record for hogs farrowed in the United States this year. Highlighting a jammed day of judging livestock, the sale was made by Bryant Jackson & Son, Galveston, Ind., just after their 235-pound senior spring boar pig was judged grand champion Duroc-Jersey boar of the fair. Purchasers were H. Y. Potter & Son, Jacksonville, 111. A single boar sold for $4,000 at the recent Illinos State Fair, but it was farrowed last year. The Jackson title winner was farrowed Feb. 12, 1948. Hundreds of persons swarmed to the Coliseum, the Swine and Sheep Pavilions and other spots for the showing of prize stock that has set a new standard of quality here. Big features of the Coliseum cattle show was presentation of a purebred Herford heifer to Maurice (Bud) Hunt, son of Dr. and Mrs. Herschell H. Hunt of West Lafayette. , The award was made by Luther S. Ferguson Bloomington president of the Indiana Herford Breeders Association, which paid for the animal. Young Hunt received the award because of his outstanding contribution to the Herford breed. He showed the reserve grand champion steer in both 4-H and Gold Medal Club classes at this year’s fair, won several other prizes here and also had the grand champion steer at the Tippecanoe County Fair last month. His father is a chemistry professor at Purdue. Approximatly 2,700 head of dairy and beef cattle are on display, Walter Wimmer, director in charge of cattle, reported. About 400 are housed in a tent, the four-and-half-acre cattle barn being too small to hold all the entries.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Donald Walter, born in Rensselaer December 6, 1926; present residence, Rensselaer; mechanic, and Elizabeth Anh Davisson, born in Cinncinati September 6, 1926; present residence, Rensselaer;. occupation, nursing. Ward Voss, born in Hancock Co., September 15, 1927; present residence, Dallas City, Ill.'; occupation, student, and Doris Torbet, born in Jasper county July 9, 1928; present residence, Rensselaer; occupation, student. James Whetstone, born in Mentone, Indiana, July 1„ 1926; present residence, Mentone; occupation, factory worker, and Helen Gertrude Kinney, born August 10, 1928; present residence, Silver Lake, Ind.; occupation, home girl. Clay Manley Douglas, born in Remington April 13, 1930; present residence, Remington; occupation, sawmill operator, and Wilma Marie Walton, born in Indianapolis April 3, 1930; present residence, Remington; occupation, home girl.